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The double, the labyrinth and the locked room : metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film / Ilana Shiloh.

Title
The double, the labyrinth and the locked room : metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film / Ilana Shiloh.
Author
Shiloh, Ilana.
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, c2011.

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viii, 186 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
  • Detective and mystery films > History and criticism
  • Metaphor in literature
  • Metaphor in motion pictures
  • Split self in literature
  • Doubles in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The deconstruction of reason in Poe's Tales of ratiocination. The double. Existential doubles : Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Subversive doubles : Patricia Highsmith's The talented Mr. Ripley -- Doubles : Christopher Nolan's Memento -- The labyrinth. Avatars of the labyrinth : Jorge Luis Borges's Death and the compass -- Justice as a labyrinth : the Coen Brothers' The man who wasn't there -- The book as a labyrinth : Mark Danielewski's House of leaves -- The locked room. The locked room of the self : Paul Auster's The New York trilogy -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780820468433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0820468436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010041800
OCLC
  • 670247538
  • SCSB-11388520
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library